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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2929527, member: 71723"]Here's what you have to understand here, Jeff. We're LARGELY talking about guys who have NEVER had a computer, and don't want one. If they do have one, they don't trust it to do anything involving money on it, and they just use it to get pictures of the grandkids. Probably still using their AOL accounts. The BIGGEST coin club I belong to (100 typical attendees) WON'T ALLOW the newsletter to be emailed, because they're afraid someone in the club will forward it to a non-member who will see their name in it and come rob them. LITERAL TRUTH! In huge swaths of these areas (eastern slopes of the Appalachian chain) there IS NO Internet service at all. Certainly nothing other than dial-up. (By the way, ask any cross-country cyclist - the Rockies are the LONNNNG climbs, but the Pennsylvania climbs are the steepest, and the valleys the most isolated.) As for MY view of what you call "the broader market", I'm petrified it'll suddenly wake up one day and realize they're overpaying. When I go to a national or regional show, and look at asking prices on nice coins, I KNOW I can pick them up at auction for 50-60% less, IF I remain strong and don't panic. It still only takes two guys to screw up any particular auction lot. When I talk of a vibrant market, I'm referring to expansive opportunities to transact on really nice coins, not anything about prices, per se.[/QUOTE]